Traveling, drinking and making friends were Li Bai's life in the Tang Dynasty.

An interesting story is recorded in Yuan Mei's Poems with the Garden: Wang Lun, who is unknown, asked Li Bai, who was famous at that time, to come to him with a letter and raise a glass with himself. You know, Wei Haoke, another fanatical fan, walked three thousand miles after Li Bai went to Guangling to meet his idol.

Although they have succeeded successively, and their EQ is high or low, their experience can be summarized in four words: doing what they like.

What's good about Li Bai? As we all know, poets and immortals have three sets: traveling, drinking and making friends.

Wang Lun grasped this point. He wrote a letter to Li Bai: "Shili Taolin is here, and Wanjia Hotel is dispensable."

Are you good at swimming? There are ten miles of peach forests here. What do you like to drink? There are ten thousand hotels here. )

Li Bai believed it. As a result, when he arrived, he discovered that Shili Peach Blossom refers to a Peach Blossom Pond ten miles away, and Wanjia Hotel refers to a hotel owned by Wan Boss. Good for you, Wang Jianguo.

From Li Bai's three hobbies, we can see that Shi Xian lived a splendid life, what he pursued and couldn't get, his struggle in this process and how to reconcile with himself.

First, travel

Let's talk about Li Bai's hobbies again. First of all, he traveled to 206 counties in 18 provinces and saw more than 80 mountains and more than 60 rivers and lakes.

Shixian really likes traveling and enjoying the moon, but also has a very secular dream-to be a big official. As the son of a businessman, Li Bai is rich in gold, but he can't get the admission ticket for the imperial examination. He can only hope to see the scenery, push it in, walk around and hand in a cover letter.

If we want to set several key coordinates for his life, then Shu, Chang 'an and Qilu must be among them.

Starting from Sichuan, where he spent his boyhood, he wrote many poems that can be used as slogans of tourist attractions, such as "See deer when the tree is deep, and don't smell noon in the stream" and "Fly up the ladder in Lv Yun, which distracts me". This is the place where he would miss the full moon, but after he left in his twenties, Li Bai never came back. It can be said that he has been wandering all his life.

You can see the deer deep in the tree, but you can't hear the bell in the afternoon ("Visiting Taoist Dai Tian")

Flying ladder in Lv Yun, my eyes are scattered and I am worried ("Deng Jincheng Scattered Flowers Building")

Chang 'an is both yearning and disappointed with Li Bai. He wants to be an official. He wants to be an official, and he wants to get rich. What he wants is to point the way and go down in history. In the poet's mind, only Chang 'an is worthy of him. In order to go to Chang 'an, he visited a lot of people, and once briefly bowed his head and wrote a insincere sentence, "I wish I knew Jingzhou was in Korea, but I was born without sealing Wan Huhou.". What kind of official do you want to be? I just want to make friends with you. Can you recommend me?

I don't need Wan Huhou, but I hope to know Han Jingzhou. (Jingzhou and Han Shu)

At the age of 42, he finally received a commission from the emperor. Twenty years of tossing and turning seems to have never existed. Just like when he left his hometown at the age of 20, he packed his bags and left. But Chang 'an is different from the dream, and it seems to be no different from other places. Still writing and drinking, but also bound by rules and regulations, broke up in discord between mountains and rivers. His work has nothing to do with governing the country and securing the country. The great ambition of "I would like to cut Loulan with a machete" fell to Chang 'an, and it became the poem "Clouds need clothes to dress flowers, and spring breeze blows the threshold", which is beautiful, but it is too light compared with his ideal.

I hope that the sword hanging around my waist can quickly pacify the border and serve my country. ("Stuffed six songs, the first song")

Beautiful people who see the bright clouds, think of their clothes and see flowers come to see them. ("Qingpingdiao")

He only stayed in Chang 'an for three years and then left. In fact, being a big official is only half of Li Bai's ideal life. The full version is to govern the world peacefully and then retire to live a fairy life. The immortals here are not metaphors, but real immortals. After being disheartened about being an official, Li Bai went to pursue the second half of his ideal. He went to Shandong, and went to Laozi's view in Jinan to accept Taoism, which is equivalent to the official sending him a Taoist card.

Thank you for your success. You have been fishing ever since. ("Hanlin Reading Collection")

There is a "boat of fools" in "Madness and Civilization". The madman was sent out from his hometown and took a boat to a place where he didn't know the specific location and whether he could be accepted. Only at sea, "between two worlds that don't belong to him, there is his reason and his hometown." In fact, the same is true of Li Bai's life. His answer is not somewhere, but on the road. When he pursues the meaning of life, he will be confused and entangled, such as swinging between politics and study, but his charm lies in his persistent search and unwillingness to accept his fate. At the age of sixty-one, he still wanted to go to war. He went home because of illness.

The place where he will go is unknown, just as once he gets off the boat, people don't know where he comes from. Only in the barren land between the two worlds that don't belong to him can he be true and have his hometown. (michel foucault's "Madness and Civilization")

Second, wine glasses.

Everyone knows that Li Bai likes drinking. He often turns into an alcoholic and drowns his sorrows, but instead of being negative, he looks handsome. When I was an official in Chang 'an, I often got carried away: "Your Majesty? Looking for my job? If you don't go, what does Li Bai have to do with my violet laity? "

The son of heaven didn't get on the boat, calling himself Brewmaster. (Du Fu's Song of the Eight Immortals in Drinking)

Li Bai often feels depressed. He never got what he wanted. Although he is very talented, he runs into a wall everywhere in his search for office. Even in Chang 'an, I just do some paperwork. His literary achievements did not help him get what he wanted in his official career. He was 45 years old when he left Chang 'an. Even in modern times, he is old enough to consider the crisis of job hunting. As for immortality, it is even more illusory.

However, he is good at self-explanation and self-encouragement Most of the time, he is in a state of confidence. When he writes poetry, he will brainwash himself and others repeatedly. "I'm really, really good." When he was young, he failed in the interview. He never doubted himself and said to the interviewer: Don't look down on young people. Confucius also said that life is awesome. After receiving the offer, it is immediately in a state of "holding" and full of confidence; Unemployment, bleak future, Li Bai is also on the roof, but not jumping off a building, but enjoying the scenery. No emo, my day is ahead.

Fu Xuan can still fear the afterlife, but her husband can't be young. (Li Shangyong)

I went out with a big smile. How can I be a person who has lived in the wild for a long time? ("Nanling children do not go to Beijing")

When it comes to destiny, don't worry about it, drink wine and climb the stairs. ("Liang")

Even if he drinks to drown his sorrows, he will not be dejected and despondent, but would rather eat and drink, and be open-minded. "Five flowers, money, to give that boy in good wine, drink off ten thousand generations of disaster! "Enjoy a glass of wine while you are alive! Don't care if your reputation will be passed down! ? After drinking this glass of wine, you won't have any more troubles. Among Li Bai's existing poems of 1000, more than 200 capitals mentioned wine.

North Island's poem reads: "Now we drink in the middle of the night, and the cups and lamps touch together, which is the sound of broken dreams." Just put it on Li Bai. Is it broken? Hey, that's a nice voice. Fuck! It's like a girl crying and feeling fine.

Five horses, a thousand daughters, change this boy for good wine, and we can eliminate the worries of generations! . ("will enter the wine")

Enjoy a glass of wine while you are alive! Don't care if your reputation will be passed down! ? (It's hard to go)

Third, friends

Li Bai travels a lot and has many friends. He also participated in small groups such as Liu Yi and Eight Immortals who drank alcohol in Zhuxi. He is very warm to his friends, with a touch of Jianghu spirit. When his friend Wu Guide traveled with him in Dongting Lake, he died and he cried, but he didn't leave when the tiger came. Finally, he borrowed money to bury the body.

Many famous poets associate with Li Bai. For example, Li Bai's drinking buddy He in Chang 'an won the first prize in the contest. As a senior, he appreciated Li Bai's talent very much and praised it without stint. The title of "fallen immortal" came from him. He made Li Bai less lonely in Chang 'an.

Subtitle: Zhang Zhi rode a horse like a boat, dizzy and fell asleep at the bottom of the well. (Du Fu's Song of the Eight Immortals in Drinking)

Another example is Meng Haoran, who is the object of Li Bai's admiration and lives a secluded life envied by Li Bai. Li Bai's first wife was also introduced by Meng Haoran.

Subtitle: Master, I salute you from the bottom of my heart. Your fame has risen to the sky. (Message to Meng Haoran)

Speaking of Li Bai's friends, we can't help but mention Du Fu, who is Li Taibai's number one fan brother and keeps pace with idols. He blew countless rainbow farts for Li Bai, saying, "Fresh and fresh, Yu Kaifu, Jun Yibao joined the army" and "put pen to paper to shock the wind and rain, make the gods cry". Du Fu not only admired Li Bai, but also pitied him. In the Anshi Rebellion, Li Bai was involved in the political struggle between Yonghe and was labeled as a traitor. Du Fu, who returned to Chang 'an after a period of exile, wrote a poem "No See", saying that "everyone wants to kill, and I love his talents alone". He once again felt sorry for Li Bai's false passion and unfulfilled ambition. In addition, he didn't know whether Li Bai was alive or dead, and this sad mood even reached the point of mourning. In Li Bai's poetic dream, there are elegy-like sentences such as "fame for a thousand years, fame for ten thousand years, what's good, when you die?"

At this time, Li Bai was still alive, but he was near the end of his life. On Li Bai's way to exile Yelang, there was news of the world's Amnesty. Li Bai, who was freed, continued to wander and finally died at his uncle's house in Anhui.

Sigh that I have traveled thousands of miles for thirty years. Empty talk about the emperor's strategy, the purple ribbon does not hang. -Li Bai's "There are chariots and horses at the door"

When he went out, he scratched his head with white hair and regretted that he had failed his life. Gao Che Li Fu is the capital, and you are brilliant, and you are haggard. -Du Fu's Li Bai's Dream

Zhong Ni is dead. Who's crying? -Li Bai's "The Last Song"

A thousand years' reputation, ten thousand years' reputation, what good is it, when you die and go! -Du Fu's Li Bai's Dream

Li Changzhi, the author of Biography of Li Bai, commented that if every poet has something worth fighting for, then Qu Yuan is for ideals, Tao Yuanming is for freedom, Du Fu is for humanity, Li Shangyin is for love and beauty, and Li Bai also has something worth fighting for, and that is life and life. A person with a passionate life is very attractive in itself. Although Li Bai also has some minor faults, he likes to brag and has a sense of superiority, but he is frank and natural, and his poems and people are very true. "The bright moon is straight in, and I have no intention of guessing." Perhaps this is the reason why so many people still love him after more than a thousand years.

(Egg: Li Bai really wanted to go to war at the age of sixty-one, that is, one year before his death. He also wrote a poem with a long name, "I heard that Qiu Li sent a large number of Chi soldiers to recruit cowards to the southeast, and he left Jinling to serve the 19th rhyme with a halfway illness". Thanks for reading, like to remember to praise the collection ~)